‘Diary of a Mad Old Man’ Review: Wayne Wang and Fan Bingbing Unintentionally Find the Boredom in Sex and Death

Given its premise — a post-stroke retiree derives sexual pleasure from his daughter-in-law — the perverse qualities of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s classic “Diary of a Mad Old Man” are plentiful. But by the standards of contemporary mores, the 1961 novel isn’t particularly explicit; in his first feature since 2019, Wayne Wang initially takes a different approach, […]

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